05:30 AM Monday, January 1, 2024
New Swedish research reveals that type 1 diabetes does not require a strict diet.
The research revealed that a moderate, low-carb diet still helps people with type 1 diabetes stick to their blood sugar goals, according to Medical Express.
This means that it does not require a strict diet as believed to control type 1 diabetes.
The research team from the University of Gothenburg chose 25 men and 25 women with type 1 diabetes, average age 48, to eat a traditional diet containing 50% of energy from carbohydrates, or a low-carbohydrate diet of 30%.
All participants suffered from high blood sugar levels, were insulin dependent, and used a continuous glucose monitoring device to record blood sugar levels every 15 minutes, over the course of the 16 weeks of the experiment.
Both diets contained healthy levels of fats and carbohydrates, and included vegetables, fiber-rich carbohydrates, unsaturated fats, nuts, seeds and legumes.
The researchers found that blood sugar levels were within the target range for 68 minutes longer per day, on average, in those on a moderately low-carb diet compared to a traditional high-carb diet.
At the same time, the time when blood sugar levels rose was reduced by 85 minutes per day.
“It has been shown that following a moderate, low-carbohydrate diet lowers the average blood sugar level, and that more patients can maintain their blood sugar within the target range,” said Sophia Sterner Isaacson, the nutritionist who supervised the trial.
2024-01-01 03:30:00
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